An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

  • -- Charles Dickens 查尔斯·狄更斯

一个想法,就像鬼一样,必须先跟它说几句话,才能解释清楚。

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

正如我们今天所知道的那样,所有伟大的艺术,以及今天所有伟大的天真,在大多数人看来,都是极端的。它来自伟大灵魂的痛苦。他们的灵魂不是从工厂里成形的,而是从工厂里变形的。

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

从我自己的存在,从我自己和我的思想中所找到的依赖,我通过理性的行动,必然推断出上帝的存在,以及上帝头脑中所创造的一切事物的存在。

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

思想的产生具有爆炸性的即时性,就像一个瞬间的诞生。人类的思想就像一个巨大的钟摆;它一直从一个极端摇摆到另一个极端。

After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.

当它完成后,有时我可以追溯到一条可能的灵感来源的道路。

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

通过写作,你会成为一个更好的作家。通过写关于旅行的文章,你会成为一个更好的旅行作家。

I don't write for a living. I live to write.

我不以写作为生。我活着就是为了写作。